Apple's Design Guru Jony Ive Was Just Knighted In The United Kingdom

Jonathan "Jony" Ive, Apple's chief design guru, was awarded
knighthood in the United Kingdom in the New Year Honours list,
the BBC
reports.

Ive can now call himself Knight Commander of the British
Empire.

Ive had a special relationship with former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who passed away earlier this year.
He also has a lot of privileges within Apple, making the
company's design chief guy practically untouchable, Jobs'
biography written by Walter Isaacson revealed earlier this
year.

Those privileges weren't limited to lunches and regular visits at
the end of the day. Ive holds a private design studio on the
ground floor of Apple's campus shielded by tinted windows and a
heavy locked door. Not even high-level Apple employees are
allowed into Ive's office.